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Eric Holder on Gun Control

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In contempt of Congress for Fast & Furious gun/drug snafu

The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. It was the first time in American history that Congress has imposed the sanction on a sitting member of a president's cabinet.

The politically and constitutionally charged dispute centered on whether the Justice Department must turn over e-mails and memorandums showing its internal deliberations last year about the botched Arizona-based gunrunning investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious. President Obama has invoked executive privilege to block the subpoena.

Operation Fast and Furious was conducted from late 2009 to early 2011 by ATF agents who were looking into a gun-smuggling network linked to a Mexican drug cartel. Suspected "straw" purchasers for the network ended up acquiring about 2,000 guns. In Dec. 2010, two such weapons were found at the site of a shootout in which a Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, was killed, setting off the scandal.

Source: New York Times, "Fast and Furious Contempt" , Jun 29, 2012

Confront our own conspiracy of silence on guns & drugs

In an address at a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial service in 1994, Holder articulated his wishes. “There has been for too long a conspiracy of silence in the black community--a reluctance to discuss our manifest problems, a desire to avoid painful truths,” he said, as quoted in the
Source: Biography on answers.com , Nov 18, 2008

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